I'm certainly not mad at you, nic. It's just... this place is a little weird without arne. I saw something the other day... can't even remember what it was... some weird, ancient Italian horror movie?... and immediately thought of arne.

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arne was a good storyteller, wasn't he? his stuff had a no-nonsense, attention-to-detail quality. sometimes things could get a little blurry, but that's not out of character for good story-telling, is it?

many people have heard of the legend of johnny appleseed, but not everyone knows that he wasn't planting edible fruit. he was planting trees that bore little sour apples... good for making hard cider and evidently, not much else.

i was just reading on reddit earlier that prostitutes played a big hand in shaping the frontier west. it seems that madams in particular accumulated a lot of money and naturally tended to invest in services, infrastructure and complimentary businesses. in this way, many a town received a boost. (i guess this wasn't al swearingen's deadwood we're talking about)

i wonder what arne would be going to see these days? would he have any insight in to the recent academy awards kerfuffle? does he feel marisa tomei was vindicated all these years later over the questions surrounding her "my cousin vinny" award?

and... RIP, chuck berry.
i still play with my ding a ling, he might be happy to know.

I read an article from the actual Deadwood Pioneer that I found on Google about a prostitute at Al Swearengen's Gem Saloon named "Tricksie" who shot a man in the head and he lived. Just like in the first episode of the series. The real Al Swearengen ended up being found murdered in the gutter of an Ohio town in the 1910s. He should have gone for the government job. Sheriff Seth Bullock became buddies with Teddy Roosevelt!

Chuck Berry and Chuck Barris, dead within days of each other? That's just weird.

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I thought we lost Chuck Barris some years back. Mandella Effect...? I've got Earnest Borgnine and Nichelle Nichols on my list too. Nelson Mandella, nada.
Maybe it was 'Murray Langston'...? Well, Thanks goes to them all

i understand that teddy roosevelt actually had an MMA studio in one of the basements of the white house. he was big in to boxing, wrestling, and the hybrid of the two. IIRC he even lost vision in one of his eyes due to a particularly nasty shot during practice.

ah, chuck barris... thank god youtube has so many gong show eps. if i ever need cheering up, that's the primo stuff. or maybe "confessions of a dangerous mind," based on his absurdly-(non)plausible autobiography.

speaking of that, i just saw a pic of nick clooney the other day, george's father. i didn't realise how much they looked alike. nor that he was famous in his own right. so that's at least three in one family, including rosemary.

I just popped in to see what you all were doing, and I saw this thread. I've been wondering what happened to LeeVanCleef, GSGregg, and JonPurpleHaze. I haven't seen many posts from you all lately. Hope you all are doing okay. Arne probably would have been aware of that "weird, ancient Italian horror movie," and if he weren't, he would have immediately googled it, or possibly watched it on YouTube. Arne could always find the most obscure, but interesting subjects to talk about. He kept things interesting. It's touching to me that LVC says that "this place is a little weird without Arne." It makes me feel good that you are still thinking of Arne, but at the same time sad that maybe some of you might still be depressed about what happened to him. I have been scanning old photos from when we were kids, and I've been dealing with a bit of depression myself. I like SteveOz's quote about death being a passing over and not a passing past. I know that Arne would want us all to carry on. He would say that it is up to us to keep the conversation going now.

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Reason: Because I can never type exactly what I want to say, the first time around.

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I just popped in to see what you all were doing, and I saw this thread. I've been wondering what happened to LeeVanCleef, GSGregg, and JonPurpleHaze. I haven't seen many posts from you all lately. Hope you all are doing okay. Arne probably would have been aware of that "weird, ancient Italian horror movie," and if he weren't, he would have immediately googled it, or possibly watched it on YouTube. Arne could always find the most obscure, but interesting subjects to talk about. He kept things interesting. It's touching to me that LVC says that "this place is a little weird without Arne." It makes me feel good that you are still thinking of Arne, but at the same time sad that maybe some of you might still be depressed about what happened to him. I have been scanning old photos from when we were kids, and I've been dealing with a bit of depression myself. I like SteveOz's quote about death being a passing over and not a passing past. I know that Arne would want us all to carry on. He would say that it is up to us to keep the conversation going now.

Well Sleepy's Sister we all love you here just like Arne,
don't be depressed, your among friends!

Oh, I'm 90% sure arne would have known that movie. There were times I could stump him on music, there were times I could stump him on movies... but not on horror movies from the '60s and '70s. Especially Italian horror films. You know, I think 2016 was my least-favorite year on record. I've had years where parents died but those years weren't the wave after wave of unrelenting awfulness from beginning to end as 2016 was. So awful that Death decided to be one of the ten people to visit Pinball Nirvana last year. Really, Death? David Bowie and Prince weren't keeping you busy? You had to go and fuck up PN, as well?

I think what I meant to say was... here's Icelandic kittens living in a dollhouse.